Arsenal's organised transfer strategy looks better and better by the day, especially when compared with Manchester United's scattergun approach.
The Gunners had the bulk of their main incomings completed during pre-season, allowing Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko to effectively gel before the league season started, and it paid off. The Gunners' 2-0 victory over Crystal Palace couldn't have been further away from Erik ten Hag's horror start to life in England as he watched his side splutter to a 2-1 defeat to Brighton.
Although Arsenal will have set their attentions on much bigger tasks than finishing above the Red Devils this season, they were 11 points ahead last term and have only increased the quality gap heading into this campaign, fans would be forgiven a brief look over their shoulder and a little laugh at the state of the Manchester club.
